They haven't got any other ideas to reverse the falling user numbers, and apparently neither does anyone else. Firefox is a decent browser, with some of the best privacy protection features. The Android version needs some work, but it's better than Chrome. HDR doesn't work, but how many people care?

So why do people abandon it? Some sites don't work, but without simply becoming a Chrome skin they can't do a huge amount about that.

Aggressive marketing by Google? Can't stop that either.

AI isn't actually the worst idea. For a lot of people being able to say "download this video" and it does would be a valuable feature. You can do it with an add on, but most people won't get that far. I bet it won't be able to do that though.

Employers need to accept that they have to train and develop people they take on. Grades should be an indication of ability to learn.

Say you have 100 shares available at a given price, and three people offer to buy them all in the same second. How do you handle that? You could give them all 33, and have one spare, as long as they are okay with only getting 33. Maybe you could have an "all or nothing" marker on the trade.

Random delays have the same issue, the buyer either has to accept an unknown price up front, or the seller has to accept cancelled trades and unpicking failed multi way deals.

The system was designed for human traders and needs a fundamental rethink.

Their energy costs are typical for Western Europe. The only ones significantly cheaper have already done what Germany is doing - installed a lot of renewables.

The UK has multiple spellings too. At school they mostly teach the -ise spelling, but I prefer the Oxford -ize spelling. Either is acceptable, although a lot of spell checkers don't support Oxford.

Whatever you do, don't Google what that stuff is. You don't want to know.

To be fair, the same is true of a lot of human designs too. Lots of modules and highly integrated ICs used, all basically black boxes. Not as bad, but certainly not immune to screw ups either.

I wonder if it passed EMC and ESD.

The way it works is that there are limits on fleet emissions. A certain proportion of cars sold must be zero emission, and the fossil ones must have average emissions below a certain level.

Even with this change, the great majority of cars sold will have to be EVs.

But also Chinese LIDAR companies made rapid advances, especially when it comes to cost reduction and software that mitigates the slightly less capable hardware. It's still not clear how LIDAR will feature in self driving cars, but it looks like the low cost systems will probably be part of the solution.

There used to be, then the EU rule came in, but with an exception for special purpose vacuums.

Seen this sort of thing happen before. They will wait a few years and then release a new truck, that is a rebadged Chinese model.

Watts aren't the key to good cleaning. Japanese brands make 300W cleaners that do a better job than 3000W European ones.

You need something to lift the dust off the surface and into the air stream. Basic vacs have little brushes, but you really want moving ones that sweep and beat, lifting dust away from the surface.

It's interesting that the is news. I don't recall it being a big deal when the Chinese space station had to dodge a SpaceX satellite.

Trump is going to be like Brexit. You can make some calculations, and the numbers are eye watering, but the true cost is much higher. The decline of a nation, the loss of soft power, the social problems and the lives permanently blighted by it.

Which is still useful. I was trying to fix an issue with a web app I made (I'm not a web developer, this is just a hobby project) and a bit of googling didn't turn up the answer. ChatGPT knew what the solution was from my description. So as a glorified search engine, it did better than Google and DDG.